Ecolab

Area Vice President Sales – Food & Beverage – South Europe

ESP - Catalonia - Barcelona Full time

What’s in it For You:

  • The opportunity to take a strategic leadership role on an absolute top priority for our division and help adapting the way we work.
  • The chance to make a direct impact and manage the team that will support our Food and Beverage customers to overcome the challenges in Food Safety: safe production and food contamination, effective cleaning, and disinfecting procedures, data gathering and use to anticipate potential issues.
  • The chance to join a dynamic, ambitious Management team tasked with delivering business growth, innovation, and value to our customers across the Food and Beverage division.
  • The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best.

What will you do:

After an intensive training on products, sectors, and our approach on F&B production, you will be responsible for the sales management in South Europe.
 

  • Managing the Sales Budget of South Europe (Italy, Spain Greece and Portugal), with an ambition and commitment to achieve growth rates.
  • Improving skills of the sales teams: through professional trainings and field visits at key accounts.
  • Managing the technical support, who´s answering on all types of technical questions related to our products.
  • Commercial guidance such as follow-up on pricing, orders, together with our customer service etc.; you will have P&L Responsibilities.
  • You will report to the VP Field Sales F&B, and together we will establish your action plan and sales targets, based on agreed strategies. You introduce new products, prepare strategic discussions on how to grow the business, etc.
  • Coaching and leading a team composed also by other managers.
  • Building and maintaining strong and long-term relationships with your partners in your territory.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of F&B Industry (dairy, food protein, brew, beverage) or Industrial Industry
  • Minimum a bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum 8+ years working experience with leadership/managerial experience in a dynamic and entrepreneurial culture
  • Willingness to travel in the assigned region.
  • Based in Spain or Italy region
  • Previous experience in sales in B2B and matrix context.
  • Previous value selling experience is considered a plus.

Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right.